Gautam Bhatia

@gautambhatia88.bsky.social

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Science Fiction. Constitutional Law. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

Gautam Bhatia is a constitutional law scholar and science fiction author from India. He is also a professor of law at the Jindal Global Law School.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · Oct 28

THE SENTENCE is out in the world today.

Available at your local bookshop, and to order online:

www.amazon.in/dp/936045152...

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 18h

I really enjoyed Abhijeet Sathe's (@bingingout.bsky.social) story "The Last Wills and Testaments of Captain Kolhe" in August's @translunartl.bsky.social

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The Last Wills and Testaments of Captain Kolhe, by Abhijeet Sathe

The first man to summon me is Whitney, my boatswain on the Dharini. This is how I learn that Virat didn’t cremate me. My body still lies on the white sand of our cove, rotting in the turquoise wate…

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 19h

There’s been a lot of online discourse around this book, but I read it cover to cover today, and found it utterly brilliant?

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3d

Teaching law through Star Trek this morning.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3d

During a class discussion of Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, entered into a very unplanned - but very fascinating - discussion of the contrasting portrayals, in literature, of Clarence Darrow (quicksilver) and Braam Fischer (saintly).

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 3d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't just a good game, it's excellent science fiction storytelling.

This should be one of the frontrunners for next year's Hugo Award for Best Game.

New blog review: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/11/art-...

The cover of Clair Obscur shows a team of adventurers facing a giant ghostly apparition.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 4d

How can a microhistory about cooking and kitchen implements inspire speculative fiction? Here's @r-emrys.bsky.social on how "Consider the Fork" may change the way you think about the technological and cultural aspects of food 🍴

Fridge Phobia and the Invention of Boiling: Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork - Reactor

A surprisingly deep look into the connections between food, technology, and human culture — plus fun facts about spoons!

reactormag.com

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 4d

A Happy publication day to this very interesting sounding epic science fiction novel now in English for the first time - Ice by Jacek Dukaj out now! #Ice www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

Publication Day Ice by Jacek Dukaj — Runalong The Shelves

Hellooo! Today sees the publication day of Ice by Jacek Dukaj a unique epic alternate history science fiction novel first published in 2007 in Poland to great acclaim and now finally translated in En...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

+1 on Shakespeare and Co. And some very nice bookshops near the Sorbonne, a few minutes’ walk away.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

Today I learned that this exists…

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

Yesssss

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

Immediately getting the next one. It’s called the bookshop of memories.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

IT’S DONE!

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

Approaching perihelion.

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 5d

✨It's Double Publication Day!✨

If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?

geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac

@solarisbooks.bsky.social

Photo of the paperback of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and hardback of The Salt Oracle with a lamp, some flower stems & blue glass buoys

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d

Want to feel feelings today, time to inject an @aptshadow.bsky.social novel into the bloodstream.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d

PS. The novelette also has a sentient octopus.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d

Happy writing news: just signed a contract with Interzone Mag for my novelette, “The Five Languages of Grief,” an SF story at the intersection of imperialism and extraction.

It will come out in a future Interzone issue, so watch this space! Couldn’t be happier for it to have found a home here.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d

A little late, but here’s the first November issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant.

This issue feat. reading Han Kang, re-reading Ann Leckie, (still) reading Alastair Reynolds, Between Worlds updates, and more:

gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

Words for Worlds - Issue 107

Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds!

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 5d

"Dazzlingly fresh and original: relentlessly paced, lavishly crafted and always human"
@gautambhatia88.bsky.social

"A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries"
@aptshadow.bsky.social

"As wildly inventive as it is intriguing...a galaxy spanning story"
@rjbarker.bsky.social

A photo of the 2025 Angry Robot Books edition of Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 6d

New poem by me out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social to help get all of us through the season (I hope). Whole issue is worth a look, but I trust that by now you don't need me to tell you that about an issue of Uncanny.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...